FOUJR
THF, MTr-T-ITr.AN MATTY
),rrrcz'n k,7 vnr 'rN)mv, j h a,)i
- a -s o ' ... faVC'\ y' F 11.Ea Y ..
. I i *Aff ' i i1'II.tL -9, '
Published every morting except Monday
during the University year by the Board in
Control of Student Publications.
Member of Western Conference Editorial
Association.
The Associated Press is exclusively en-
ttiled to the use for republication of all news
dispatches credited to it or not otherwise
credited in this paper and the local news pub-
lished herein.
Entered at the postoffice at tnn Arbor,
Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate
oif postage granted by Third Assistant Post-
mr'ster General.
Suscription by carrier, $4,00; by mail,
$4.50.
Offices-tAnt, Arbor Press Building, May-
nard Street.
Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business 21214.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Telephone 4925
MANAGING EDITOR
JO H. CHAMBERLIN
Editor........ .....Ellis B. Merry
Editor Michigan Weekly.. Charles E. Behymer
Staff Editor...............Philip C. Brooks
City Editor............Courtland C. Smith
Women's Editor.........i.Marian L. Welles
Sports Editor............Herbert E. Vedder
Theater, Books and Music.Vincent C. Wall, Jr.
Telegraph Editor........ ....~ .Rs
Assistant City Editor.....Richard C. Kurvink
Night Editors
Robert E. Finch G. Thomas McKean
J. Stewart Hooker Kenneth G. Patrick
Paul J. Kern Nelson J. Smith, Jr.
Milton Kirshbaumn
Reporters
Esther Anderson
Mdargaret Arthur
Emmons A. Bonfield
beratton Luck
Jean Campbell
Jessie Church
William 1. Davis
Clarence N. Edelson
Margaret Gross
Valborg Egeland
Marjorie Folier
James 11. Freeman
Robert J. Gessner
Elaine E,. Gruber
Alice Hageishaw
Joseph E. Howell
Charles R. Kaufman
Lawrence R Klein
Donald J. Kline
Sally Knox
Jack L. Lait, Jr.
Marion McDonald
Richard H. Milroy
Charles S. Monroe
Catherine Price
Harold L. Passman
Morris W. Quinn
Pierce Rosenberg
David Scheyer
Eleanor Scribner
Robert G. Silbar
Howard F. Simon
George E. Simons
Rowena Stillman
Sylvia Stone
George Tilley
Edward L. Warner, Jr.
3enjamin S. Washer
LeoeJ. Yoedicke
Jyscph.Zwerdling
BUSINES'' STAFF
Telephone 21214
s.A
BUINESS MNAGER
WILLIAM :C.: PU---
Assistant Manager.... George H. Annable, Jr.
Advertising ..............Richard A. Meyer
Advertising ...............Arthur M. Hinkley
Advertising...............Edward L.wlHulse
Advertising ..........'..John W. Ruswinckel
Accounts................Raymond Wachter
Circulation.............George B. Ah, Jr.
Publication.................Harvey Talcott
Assistants
Fredl Babcock Hal A. Jaehn
George Bradley James Jordan
Marie Brunier Marion Kerr
ames .lrwn Iorotby Lyons
ames B. Coope Thales N. Leningtoa
Charles K. (orrell Catherine McKinven
Barbara Cromell W. A. Mahaffy
yelen Dancer Francis Patrick
Mary Dively George M. Prrett
Bessie U. Egeland Alex K. Scherer
Ona Felker Frank Schuler
Ben Fishman Bernice Schook
Katherine Frochne Mary Slate
Douglass Fuller George Sater
Beatrice Greenberg Wilbert Stephenson
Helen Gross Ruth Thompson
Herbert Goldberg Herbert E. Varnumn
E.J. Hammer Lawrence Walkley
Carl W. Hammer liannah Waler
Ray Hotelich
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1927
Night Editor-K. G. PATRICK
A MISSION FOR A 31ISSION
What is hoped to be one ot the
largest and most representative stu-
dent gatherings held on the continent
in recent years is scheduled to assem-
ble in Detroit from Dec. 28 to Jan. 1,
when the Quadre nial -Convention of
the Student Volunteer Movement for
Foreign Missions will be held. Ar-
rangements have been made to bring
in speakers of note from China, Afri-
ca, Canada, England and the Philip-
pines, with the particular aim of fur-
thering the cause of missions to vari-
ous foreign lands, inasmuch as Chris-
tianity and , the future of such mis-
sions are involved.
Giving due emphasis to such state-
ments as the one by David Lloyd
George, wherein he says, "If Christian
Missions fail the rest of us had better
close up shop. The Missionary pro-
gram represents the most successful
-enterprise for the reclamation of man-
kind that the modern world has ever
seen. We cannot dispense with that
program," the convention aims to be
not one of revialism but one which
looks into the future with the hope of
accomplishing much in the way of
making this a more Christian world.
Those of the 4,000 odd students who
are expected to attend the gathering
are forewarned to come prepared to
discuss frankly the whole business of'
foreign missions; about half of them
probably will, and the other half will
adopt the disinterested viewpoint.
Similar conventions have, as a rule,]
not been outstanding successes; and
the, possibility of getting 4,000 stu-
dents to think, work and act together-
in really doing some good as far as
their objective is concerned, cannot
be viewed with excess optimism. It
is to be hoped that convention officials
are not over-shooting the mark and
that t least some good, other than
merely bringing more eyes to focus]
upon such missions during that period,I
will result.t
AT LAST1
it is gratifying to learn that after
six weeks of the most unedifying kind1
of struggle between miners and opera-f
tors in the Colorado coal fields the1
governor of the state, W. H. Adams,1
hasfinally decided to take a hand to-
ward. bringing a settlement.I
mate course out of the difficulties, and
until both sides come to peaceable
conference there can be no arbitra-
tion.
The offices of the governor of the
state as intermediary between the
radical and often headstrong miners
and the obstinate operators will be
welcome Indeed. If there is any one
thing regrettable in the situation, it is
the fact that already the governor
has allowed the strike to go on in its
own violent way for six weeks, dur-
ing which time the clouds of tragedy
and fatality have descended on the
Columbine district.
DISTRESS
There seems to be no doubt but that
the coal-mining industry in the United
States today is on an extremely un-
desirable basis. Providing, as it does,
employment for more than half a
million men at seasons, it fluctuates
with amazing alacrity, so that at times
less than one-third of the total number
of coal miners of the country is em-
ployed.
This condition has been recognized
for a score of years by students, and
the numerous strikes in the industry
are merely one of the many manifesta-
tions of the unsound basis upon which
it is built. The miners, forced to be
idle on an average of between four
and eight months a year, are required
by circumstance to demand wages
while they work in excess of what
they actually contribute.
The idea of improving this situa-
tion by reducing the number of miners
is not new, but never before has it
been given official recognition which
it enjoys now following the statement
by President Coolidge that he shares
the opinion. Coming as this state-
ment does, in the midst of a very dis-
astrous strike in the Colorado fields,
the words of the President can not be
ignored.
The real difficulty with this, as with
most other theoretical solutions, is to
put it into practice. It sounds very
simple in theory to reduce the number
of coal miners one-third and keep the
remainder employed at reasonable
wages throughout the year, but in
practice it is quite a different matter.
In the first place the dealings are
not between one organization of oper-
ators and one organization of miners,
who could meet and formulate a plan
and put it into effect, but rather
through a myriad of tiny operators
and at least three major labor unions.
Before any workable plan to reduce
the number of miners can be put into
effect at all, some dominant organiza-
tion will have to gain control, and
neither the ideas of the economists
nor the plan of President Coolidge in-
clude the formation of such a group.
Perhaps a federal commission, to
parallel the federal railroad commis-
sion, with authority granted by Con-
gress, could control the situation.
Whatever the case, the idea, as an
idea, is a good one, and deserves more
than passing attention.
BROADCASTING HARMONY
Herbert Hoover last week paid trib-
ute to the International Radiotele-
graphic conference at the instance of
its closing in Washington, because it
had worked in perfect harmony and
conception in a subject which is high-
ly technical and difficult. The confer-
ence had been sitting at the capital
since Oct. 4, and the result of its work
was the adoption and signing of the
International Radiotelegraphic Con-
vention. Eighty governments were
represented, and Hoover acted as
president.
It is an encouraging spectacle to
observe such a large gathering able
to confine itself to harmonious work
toward a common end, and that aI
scientific end. Furthermore its con-
clusions, reached after no serious dis-
agreements, were in the end unan-
imous. It was resolved that since the
lanes through which radio communi-
cation may be made are few, that
these should be restricted by national
supervision to carry only certain
types of material. Deeming the world
of radio to be on the threshold of fur-
ther and greater development, the
representatives have taken steps to
prevent chaos. The matter which they
had in hand was not yet of sufficient
proportion to be a popular issue, and,
the intense work put into the task of
prevention is all the more praise-
worthy.
DETRIMENTAL TREATIES
That all treaties between countries
do not tend directly to further the
of the pact. Now, it is the general
opinion that the treaty just formulated
is a direct answer to Jugoslavia as re- T H E A T E R
gards the treaty made by that country
with France, as well as a last warn- B 0 0 K S
ing by Italy to its neighbors to keepM U S I C
its hands off Albania.
It does not require a student of
politics to see that the various Eiur-
opean countries are not getting very THE SII)EWAL4KS OF NEW YORK
far with their innumerable small Without the definite volition of the
treaties and petty arguments ; the authors, "The Same to You" has un-1
treaty just passed between Italy and
Albania is one of the best examples consciously developed into a series
of what a treaty can do to mar the of portraits of contemporary New
outlook for peace and good will; York life-the underworld of the night
whatever understanding it brings clubs, and their after-midnight floor
about between the two countries in- shows. This setting, once the success
volved it is of little value when the of "Broadway" last season, has been
tenseness and ill-feeling it gives birth plumbed to its vicious and criminal
to among the neighboring countries depths. The walls of even the most
is considered. respectable Gotham dressing rooms
If Italy, Albania, Jugoslavia and have been razed to make a producers
some of the other countries of the holiday - witness "White Lights,"
Balkans which must, geographically "Burlesque" and a dozen others.
at least, get along together, would - And "The Same to You" has all the
spend more time thinking how they characters of this locale: Mamie La
could bring about a better understand- Tour, the blues singer; Pembrooke
ing and establish firmer bonds of Johns, the hoofer; Gus Bender, who
friendship by less artificial and con- heads the gangsters; and Hildegarde
troversial means than treaties, history Hollyhock, a refined chorus girl-
has shown that they would be more they are all graduated from the ten-
likely to arrive at a natural and derloin and the Bowery. They are
therefore satisfactory conclusion. wise guys and good goils, and they
know their onions. The plot for that
HENRY FORD-PROSPERITY reason has become an engrossing
melodrama-something that might be
There is not the slightest doubt but medrasometithatmi e
termed a show of the later machine
what the production of the new Ford gun period, with hold-ups, bond thefts,
car, coming as it does with the an- plotting and counter-plotting, a gang
nouncement that Ford will spend of bootleggers and the incidents at-
$800,000,000 in 1928, will prove to be a tendant to this action.
tremendous spur to American busi- C And lest this be bowled down by
ness throughout the country. When the intellectuals, there are interpolat-
Ford shut down last spring, Detroit ed the proper number of brisk chorus
went into one of the most serious routines, executed by rhythmic feet
business depressions since the war, and legs, and a set of songs which are
and the effect of financial distress was ' qute the most effective that have
nation-wide in its scope. burst upon the cosmic tympanum of
The glib optimists who expect a an Ann Arbor audience. According to
miracle to occur with the opening of all sound augury, based on a deep
the River Rouge plant are no doubt study of the archives, omens, prob-
due for a disappointment, since even abilities and symptoms, there should
the mighty influence of Ford can not be a Union opera ready for the Whit-
bring an economic millenium. Those ney next Monday evening.
who expect a consistent upward trend
in business, however, and a return to D)EGAs: AN NTIMATE POR-
the sound prosperity of a year ago, I'RAIT," by Ambrose Vollard; New
are probably very close to the core of York: The Greenberg Company; 1927;
truth. t3-);.
A review, by Robert Wetzel.
EDITORIAL COMMENT Edgard Degas (1834-1917), one of
the most distinguished French paint-
I
I---
MICHIGAN PINS
FOUNTAIN PENS
ALARM CLOCKS
HALLER'S
i
I
I
I
i
i
Boy..
. girl .
STATE ST.
JEWELRS
pipe.. .
Edgeworth
happiness ...
r
<.y
s J Y
r
r T
,.I
k
" , if
14
UBSCIN E
TO TH E
WEEKLY
Me~kethis 2a6
Let us help you select that Christmas Gift
Both Ends of
the Diagonal
0
ers of the last century, is familiar to
W(MEN'S OLLEGES~flR Imost Americans chiefly through the
frequent reproductions of his work
(The Chicago Tribune) -I._-
(e io rnin the pages of "Vanity Fair." As a
A football coach attributed a spotty painter, Degas developed with slow
season to the distracting presence of certainty; and it is his later work
co-eds in the university. Another which has established his reputation E
f'ound a reason for successful seasons --pastels and canvasses of little ballet
in the fact that his school was a boy's girls, laundresses, prostitutes-vivid,
school. The idea does not square with vital, impersonally realistic.
romance if it does with fact. It has With something of the meticulous-
been claimed that men were more ness of Boswell, M. Vollard proceeds
virile under the eyes of women. to enumerate his subject's more en-
Some time, however, and perhaps gaging eccentricities. Temperamental
soon, we think the whole question of as a prima-donna, Degas could never
co-education ought to be investigated. eat with flowers on the table, could
The system has been in practice long not bear to see his pictures in gold
enough for its results to have scien- frames, loathed and feared dogs and
tific value, cats, painted his landscapes indoors
Our own impression is that co- and his racing pictures with the aid
education- is a very mixed blessing. of a toy horse.
As some one once put it, "It's swell One gets a graphic impression of
for the girls and hell for the boys." the artist, now packing off a model
The average girl matures two or because she did not like the way he
three years earlier than the average painted her nose; now ejecting the
boy. By te time she gets to college admirers who kept him from his work,
she is an adult physically, mentally, l or turning his clat-collar up because
and socially. er chief concern is in his friend Manet's landscapes were
finding a husband, and a co-educa- so "draughty"; now stealing a picture
tional college offers her four years he had given a friend so he could re-
of daily contact with a select type of paint a defective foot.
male. It is a made to her order bar- His eyesight failing in his old age,
gain counter in husbands, and the Degas turned to sculpture, which he
number of college romances attest to termed "the blind man's trade"; and
the fact that the co-ed is aware of fearing to leave behind him an imper-
her opportunity and takes full ad- feet statuette, he worked only in wax
vantage of it. Co-education offers no and clay.
distraction for her; on the contrary, M. Vollard concludes his portrait
it is in direct line with her main in- with a pathetic picture of the old
terest and her principal purpose in painter trudging off to his former
life. studio, then in the hands of the
F
I
a
,
I
_. /
v
4
The average boy, on the other hand,
reaches college still in the horse play
stage of adolescence. He still needs
to ease his growing pains with rough
sports and his interests are still the
learning, and making, and collecting
interests of the boy. The gi.l is a
woman when she reaches college; the
boy is not a man until he leaves col-
lege. The contacts of co-education,
which are natural to the girl, are un-
natural to the boy. He is distracted.
The time he ought to be devoting to
learning or to physical development
lie is likely to spend in mooning or
keeping dates. The girl is being fitted
for life; the boy is wasting the time
he should be using in becoming fitted
wreckers, and poering through his old
fence with sightless eyes.
M. Vollard has supplied us with a
brief, gossipy, vivid sketch of Degas,
an intimate picture akin the Brous-
son's "Anatole France." A notable
feature of the biography is the inclu"-
sion of sixteen of .Degas' pictures,
which reproduce rather well, since the
painter, though a skillful colorist, al-
ways preferred black and white. Deal-
ing with a subject who, cloistered in
his studio, is interesting for what he
did rather than what he was, Vol-
lard's book can offer little to those
who would prefer, say, a biography
of Jesse James to one of William or
Henry. But has has given us an in-1
ar - Z, Pio.eerillg cab~le
- b cortn mfu//ication
-- - -- withs Cub~a.
On the high seas of d ustry
41
cause of the world, and in this case for life. formal and fragmentary sketch of an
European peace, is peculiarly exem- There is also another side to the artist whose own work was just that;
plified by the recent treaty of definite question. Higher education for wom- all admirers of Degas will want to
defensive alliance drawn up between en is a recent social manifestation. possess it.
Italy and Albania. The treaty, it is Until lately women had little use for * * *
generally conceded, does not create a college education. How much have THE STUDENTS' RECITAL
a new situation in the Balkans, but they now? Most of the advantages A request performance of the Hos-
merely supplements the treay of of education, both cultural and prac- ,ner cantata, "The Pilgrims of 1620" I
friendship and arbitration concluded tical, are wasted; but women waste which was presented last Tuesday
nearly a year ago by the Ministers of far more than men. Admittedly as evening at the Phi Mu Alpha recep-I
Foreign Affairs for the two countries. educable and as intelligent as men, tion for Dr. and Mrs. Albert Stanley,
In spite of the fact that both French in the confines of the lives charted will be given Thursday evening of this
and Jugoslav foreign ministers de- out for most of them women lose what week in the School of Music auditori-
"inl ho f n ... --- ~ ... ...,.,.1. _ Iln - - - -,.,,.a -- I--- ^ --
N ORSEMEN of old roamed the
seas and boasted of the strange
worlds they saw. But today Bell tele-
phone men are discovering worlds a
glimpse of which would make the
Viking gasp with wonder.
Whether exploring the realm of sub-
marine cable or the sub-microscopic
world of electrons or the unsolved
equations of efficient management and
broader service, telephone men are
seeking and finding intellectual ad-
venture.
To men of this type it is reassur-
ing to know that the telephone indus-
try, in spite of the amazing progress
it has made in a few short years, is
yet far from its ultimate development.
)
BELL SYSTEM